All of my gemini api key is unavailable (429 error)

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I dont’t know when this happen. yesterdy I want to use gemini and it said 429 error. and I went to gemini api key page, nothing on the page, I have to import the project I created months ago and it shows the api key is unavailable, It’s used to be free tier. I created a new project and new api key, it’s also unavailabel. that means my account is being banned right? what happened? I just haven’t use the api key for several days and it’s been banned? I find others also encounter this problem. It’s not a single problem only with me.

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same error。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

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same here. my project and API keys simply disappeared this morning. During the night everything still worked. No support from google side. ALL my app users have no service atm. really frustrating

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me too…………………………………………..

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same problem bruh(((

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Hello,

Apologies for the inconvenience, could you please share your key tier for more detailed analysis?

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Free tier. On the console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard page, I have 4 projects, but only 1 is displayed on the aistudio.google.com/api-keys page….

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i have same problem too , until now.

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Same here. Got another api key from another account and getting the same. Feels like free tier just broke

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Same problem here (429). I have credits left from free tier, but my billing page says “Paid account“, I have a valid credit card registered. There’s something strange on “Billing/Credits“ page: there’s a expired plan that goes from September 3 to September 4 and a valid plan from September 4 to December 3. Today is still September 3…

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I have a similar problem

I’ve been consistently getting 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED on two specific Google accounts when calling the Gemini API. What’s unusual:

  • Other accounts in the same environment work fine (HTTP 200).

  • On the problematic accounts:

    • Creating a new API key in the same project → still 429

    • Creating a brand-new project (enabled Generative Language API) + new key → still 429

  • The usage charts show plenty of remaining quota (not near limits).

  • The 429 response contains no details and no Retry-After header.

This makes me suspect an account-level throttle / risk control rather than visible RPM/TPM quotas.

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Me too. On my long-used Google account, creating a key shows as unavailable, but I can create a free key on a new account.

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Hello,

We have escalated this issue to the concern team. They are woking on resolving it.

Thank you for your patience.

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I found a problem — Free project returns 429 on the very first request; missing “GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day” quota

My Free-tier project consistently returns 429 RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED on the very first request to gemini-2.5-flash-lite:generateContent.
On the Quotas page for this project, the metric “GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day” is absent, while another working account/project shows this metric (value = 1000). This suggests my free input-token entitlement was not provisioned (effectively 0), causing every request to be rate-limited immediately.

Please check for a producer override / entitlement misconfiguration on generativelanguage.googleapis.com for the above project/account, and provision/restore the Free “GenerateContent free tier input token count limit per model per day” quota (and related Free entitlements), or remove any override that sets the effective quota to 0

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Same issue here continues, very strange to say the least.

It was working fine for ages and then suddenly stopped.